
Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco, CAFull-time$120–225K/yrSeen todayStill listed today
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Job overview
Trellis builds AI-powered solutions that automate healthcare document intake, prior authorizations, and appeals. Forward Deployed Engineers work directly with healthcare providers, pharmaceutical companies, and diagnostic labs to understand operational challenges and implement solutions. They work in small, autonomous teams, with direct access to leadership, and own end-to-end delivery of high-impact projects.
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Full job description
Trellis helps healthcare providers treat more patients faster—while eliminating pre-service paperwork. We do this by automating document intake, prior authorizations, and appeals at scale to streamline operations and accelerate care. Trellis is a spinout from Stanford AI lab and is backed by leading investors including YC, General Catalyst, Telesoft partners, and executives at Google and Salesforce. The Role Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) at Trellis work directly with healthcare providers, pharmaceutical companies, and diagnostic labs to understand their most pressing operational challenges and implement AI-powered solutions that transform patient care. Our customers trust Trellis for mission-critical healthcare operations, and projects often start with complex questions like "How do we reduce prior authorization denial rates while accelerating patient access to life-saving treatments?" or "How can we streamline our drug program enrollment process to get patients the medications they need faster?" 🧍🏻♂️Why work with us
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Be at the forefront of what's possible in AI and Healthcare data.
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Work on the most important problem of our time—with direct, measurable impact.
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You will work closely with the F500 customers and the founding team. You will get to wear multiple hats from sales and marketing to recruiting.
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Extreme ownership: you will own key part of Trellis business operations and have the opportunities to start new initiatives.
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Be a part of a world-class team (e.g., team members have previously won the international physics olympiad, published economics research, were a founding engineer at Unicorn Startup, and taught AI classes to hundreds of Stanford graduate students).
Requirements
- Core Responsibilities: As an FDE, your role combines the technical depth of a senior engineer with the strategic thinking of a healthcare consultant. You'll work in small, autonomous teams with direct access to leadership and own end-to-end delivery of high-impact projects. Your day might include:
Compensation & Benefits The salary range above is our good-faith estimate. Your final level and base salary will reflect what you bring: your skills, your experience, and how much ownership you’re ready to take on. Base pay is only one part of the package. Every full-time teammate also gets meaningful equity, because the people building Trellis should share in what it becomes. We are committed to keeping you healthy and supported so you can do the best work of your career. Here are some of the benefits & perks we offer:
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Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
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Flexible PTO & Sick Time
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Daily meals in the office
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Team offsites
Equal Opportunity at Trellis At Trellis, we’re building AI agents that help patients get life-saving medicine faster. The patients and providers we serve come from every background, and our team should too. Trellis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We hire based on talent, curiosity, and drive, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. If you need an accommodation at any point in our hiring process, let your recruiter know and we’ll take care of it.
How this job compares
Set against the 2,688 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$120–225K/yr
- California median$156–265K/yr522 salary ranges
- US median$150–265K/yr2,396 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $173K, is 18% below the California median midpoint ($210K) — in the lowest quarter of Forward Deployed Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 608 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs in California and 2,688 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for no prior experience — less than three in four Forward Deployed Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 2,347 postings).
- Education
- 506 of the 2,688 open Forward Deployed Engineer jobs (19%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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